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Think of them like TB's insurance company, he pays a premium per month and when shit goes south they are the ones who have to pay for the costs of getting it sorted and are the ones responsible for getting it sorted.

At least now that TB has disputed the strike it will be removed unless Fun proceed with legal action, it will just take 30 days from the date of the dispute.

If they do proceed with legal action, TB easily has enough evidence for harassment, blackmail, libel in addition to the fact that they can be punished for fraudulently using the DMCA / copyright system.

While i have no knowledge in laws, and I will not hide it, someone in here mentioned that since TB and polaris are based in the US, the Laws regarding this situation are in their favor. Even if Fun creators are in Jordan.

Well yes, they'll lose any court case brought against them, but how would you get compensation? About the worst that could happen is having their DMCA claim system be revoked on YouTube and getting blacklisted on Steam. You can threaten their theoretical future profits but you can't actually get restitution without paying for a foreign enforcer to do the job for you.

Being in another country does not matter, their money most likely are transactions done electronically, courts can easily seize their money, unless they have managed to quickly withdraw it all in 1's and bury it in the desert, in which case....lolz...the second they use a bank again the money will be taken. Have fun living in a cave.

Ì see some people have already explained it better than I can, but I just want to point out (and correct me if I'm wrong): if these strikes get withdrawn (by Fun Creators) or denied (by Youtube) it won't count towards the '3-strikes -> you're out' rule.

Yes that's how it should work, however there used to be something like "invisible strikes" that remained even after a strike had been removed and if you accumulated to many of those Youtube would shut you down merely for being to much trouble.

Hopefully that system is long gone though and seeing as I haven't heard of any such cases in a couple of years that seems likely.

From what I heard is that Youtube wants to have Networks to be reponsible for their partners. Which is acutally a good thing, because Maker got way too greedy and partnered over 30k channels without actually looking what kind of content they upload.

Youtube doesn't want to be responsible for that solely, so every time a "managed" channel gets a strike it also applies to the Network.

The network, according to the latest info I have, has a total of 5 strikes till they lose the ability to operate on Youtube.

Indeed. A whole lot of this information came out around the time AngryJoe got blitzed with copyright claims from the new automated system of fail. TB didn't get any of those because he's managed by Polaris; Joe is not.

The copyright strikes only affect one particular channel. If TB's channel 1st channel gets 3 strikes it's gone. It is however not affected by any other channel getting strikes, not even if it's his other channel.

Polaris (or Maker Studios) is a network that helps channels to cross-promote and share a combined resource and competence pool (like juristic help in this case). Being part of network means that a channels benefit from each other (synergy) and it also means you don't stand alone when shit hits the fan unexpectedly.

In this case, the part they play is probably best described as that of a labor union. They do more than that though.

Actually it's Polaris that gets the strike now with the new managed channels stuff Youtube implemented. MCNs don't simply exist as cross promotional entities either they are a buffer between Youtube and their contracted channels instead of the old era partnerships that channels had directly with Youtube.

But I dare say MCNs wouldn't simply get taken down for 3 strikes like an account, they probably need a number more and it would hopefully get them under some form of review by Youtube rather than an immediate shutdown.

When one is linked as a managed user all copyright strikes received by any channel in the CMS is put onto the CMS itself. Meaning if you get a strike so does the CMS. This means that receiving to many strikes on the CMS causes lose of YouTube features. A mere 20 strikes will lose you access to the basic needs like uploading a video.

Here is a list of penalties for strikes:

10 Strikes:
If you accumulate 10 active partner strikes, you won’t be allowed to add new channels or move channels between your content owners. You’ll still be able to remove channels; however, as noted above, removing a channel will not resolve any partner strikes related to that channel’s copyright strikes.

15 Strikes:
If you accumulate 15 active partner strikes, the channels you manage will lose access to many YouTube promotional features, including the ability to create new custom thumbnails, modify channel art, add new annotations, ‘like’ videos, and use tools like InVideo Programming. Existing thumbnails, annotations, and other promotional features already in place will continue to exist.

20 Strikes:
If you accumulate 20 active partner strikes, channels you manage won’t be able to upload new videos or create livestreams. YouTube may also terminate your partnership."

Actually have no clue if it affects both or how it works but that quote seem to indicate it's indeed a strike for both.

This was part of the big scandal with Youtube last year when they did the scan and copyright claimed thousands of videos(see angryjoe`s channel for examples and details), that was done as a preparation for this new system which took effect at the new year.

If this is all genuine TB should really sue them so companies realise they can't pull this crap. They tried it on with TB here and got more fight than they expected but think of how many small channels have had emails from these guys saying they'll be sending a team of lawyers.. if you have a small channel and a company says its going to send some lawyers and take you to court if you don't delete your channel what do you do?

I know TB is already undergoing a lot of stress from this most likely but somebody needs to stand up and show these companies that try to scam people like this will get them sued so they don't keep trying it.